herascrape vs EnsembleData
EnsembleData meters a daily unit budget that doesn’t roll over, and a single Instagram call can cost 1–10 units; herascrape is one flat per-call price with no daily cap and no unit math.
EnsembleData sits in the “multi-platform social data apis” tier. One API across many social networks, with Instagram as one target among several. Billed in units or credits that vary per endpoint, so the true per-call price is rarely a single number.
| herascrape | EnsembleData | |
|---|---|---|
| Focus | Instagram-only | Multi-platform (8) |
| Instagram data | Deep — 37 structured endpoints: profiles, followers, following, likers, comments, stories, highlights, tagged, reels, hashtags, locations | 11 Instagram endpoints (of 8 platforms) |
| Data format | Structured JSON | Structured JSON |
| API type | REST | REST |
| Delivery | Synchronous | Synchronous |
| Response time (p90) | 1,720 ms | Not measured |
| Rate limit | 50 req/s (raisable) | Not published |
| Price / 1,000 | $0.40 flat | ≈$2.8–6.7 / 1K calls |
| Pricing model | Flat per request at any balance; only successful (2xx) calls billed | Daily-unit subscription, no rollover; 1–10 units per call |
| Billing | Only successful (2xx) | Per unit (1–10/call) |
| MCP server | Yes | No |
| Client SDKs | Python, JavaScript | Python, JavaScript |
| Free tier | $1 free (~2,500 calls) | 50 units/day |
Figures normalized to US$ per 1,000 and verified on each vendor’s live pages on 2026-10-24; re-check before relying on a number. Trademarks belong to their owners.
Why developers pick herascrape
Followers, likers, comments, stories, highlights, tagged and reels as real structured endpoints.
A synchronous REST response in about a second — no job to trigger, poll, or collect from storage.
One rate at any balance, only successful calls billed — no tiers, quotas, or credit multipliers.
$0.0004 per request, flat. 37 real-time Instagram endpoints. Only successful calls billed.